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Jordan isn't a lawyer and evidently cannot parse legal text. His stated concern about overbreadth -- that this initiative would ban the sale of basically all fowl in DC -- is misplaced and downstream of his professional limitations.
Guys, this foie gras ban is so sloppily written that it would ban Jewish delis from selling chopped chicken liver.
Absolutely vote no on this shit.
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The DC foie gras thing is fascinating, because I know most liberals support animal cruelty with their daily actions, but it is illuminating to hear them support it with their words for once
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mini-exclusive for @insideclimate, a site one former LA official described as “a mini Chernobyl in our backyard” is being demolished despite concerns from families nearby about the dust and its potential to lead to cancer if inhaled (wt Nina Dietz)
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There is no excuse for foie gras in 2026. There are difficult questions about how to feed the world while protecting animal welfare, public health, and the environment, but this is not among them. Nobody should be defending the worst excesses of factory farming in the age of AGI.
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This foie gras debate makes me really despair for humanity. This is the very easiest ethics question ever. No gray area whatsoever
The arguments against the foie gras ban:
1. We only torture them for 3 weeks
2. Other things are also torture
3. People should be able to choose torture
4. Sometimes it’s made w/ 1/2 the torture
5. Is this enough torture to care about?
6. Other bad things happen
7. The children!
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Martha Lincoln retweeted
Please understand that when schools push students and teachers to use AI, they are not just making everyone involved dumber, they are also doing this
Google did this to build a data center in Finland.
It was illegal, but they did it anyway.
Big Tech is out of control.
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Bird Flu in Alameda, CA.
Canada geese collected at Alameda’s Crown Memorial State Beach have tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu. sfchronicle.com/eastbay/arti…
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Martha Lincoln retweeted
Barely two months ago, we lost Professor Jason Arday. Thousands grieved. Institutions across higher education spoke about inclusion and belonging.
Now Nathan Cofnas is being given a room at Oriel College, Oxford, to ask whether DEI is undermining higher education.
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Martha Lincoln retweeted
Soon, the chemicals will start falling from the sky over the Red Hill area of Boulder County, Colorado.
The wildland is known for its biodiversity, home to hundreds of important species and a concentration of rare environmental resources. thenewlede.org/2026/10/reall… @thenewledenews
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Yosemite’s bears are having a terrible year sfgate.com/national-parks/ar…
ALT Yosemite’s bears are having a terrible year
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The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill devastated deep-sea life—and it hasn’t recovered according to a recent 13-year study.
ALSO a cautionary tale about other industrial activities such as #deepseamining.
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Pope Leo: “We live in a performance-driven culture that constantly compares and ranks people, sometimes ruthlessly” and a “misguided understanding of meritocracy ultimately fails to respect people.” vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/…
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Martha Lincoln retweeted
"We estimate 430,365 heat-related deaths in Europe over the study period 2000-2025, with just over half of the modelled burden attributable to human-induced warming." nature.com/articles/s44360-0…
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“Severe heat killed more than 50,000 people in European cities and towns this summer.”
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Quest Diagnostics, one of America’s largest lab diagnostic companies, disclosed in a filing to shareholders that it learned of unauthorized access to a system used by doctors and other health care professionals to order tests and view lab results. wapo.st/4snSwJ1
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Martha Lincoln retweeted
Exactly. We have companies that have unleashed malware and viruses world wide, whose CEOs should be arrested and prosecuted, who have somehow been able to change this crime into a marketing gimmick instead.
Things are moving so fast that everyone seems to have completely missed how insane it is that AI companies have been allowed to unleash agentic AI products with no regulatory guidelines.
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The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
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Breaking News: The New York City Council passed a horse-drawn carriage ban. The bill will likely face a court challenge before being implemented in 2028. nyti.ms/4yxTggd
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